Still waiting for the painter to repair the XS rear mudguard. But out and about today on the W800, decided to collect a picture of the old railway viaduct at Leaderfoot. A local landmark and a favourite of mine with the elegant tall and slender piers.
There's nineteen arches in total and the bridge deck is 126' above the river Tweed. Which is running very low just now.
Opened in the 1860s to carry the Berwickshire Railway, closed to passenger trains just after WW2 and closed to all railway traffic in the 1960s. When I were a lad, the bridge was scheduled for demolition and to get onto it you had to ignore the Trespassing signs and climb a barbed-wire fence. But now, it's part of a local footpath.
There's three bridges at Leaderfoot. Unfortunately, could not photograph the one I stood on to take the pictures - shame, 'coz it's the most picturesque. But here's the modern bridge which now carries the main road:
There's nineteen arches in total and the bridge deck is 126' above the river Tweed. Which is running very low just now.
Opened in the 1860s to carry the Berwickshire Railway, closed to passenger trains just after WW2 and closed to all railway traffic in the 1960s. When I were a lad, the bridge was scheduled for demolition and to get onto it you had to ignore the Trespassing signs and climb a barbed-wire fence. But now, it's part of a local footpath.
There's three bridges at Leaderfoot. Unfortunately, could not photograph the one I stood on to take the pictures - shame, 'coz it's the most picturesque. But here's the modern bridge which now carries the main road: